“Before proceeding directly to the evidence in the Bible of the existence of this Eternal Order, we make the following statement: We find evidences from the beginning of Genesis to the time of Christ that there was a Brotherhood of men, who lived in the flesh and were masters in the highest sense of the term. This Brotherhood, like the Christ, were able to command the forces of nature, were righteous in all their ways, and were in direct touch with Yahveh and Elohim – Yahveh, the Spirit and God of the universe; and Elohim, the Brotherhood who were the Creators of the world.
These, as we have intimated, were evidently from the age prior to Adam, from the age of which the Orientalists claim to have abundant records, called the Golden Age; and it is also related in mythology that one after another of the gods left the abode of men, Virgo being the last to leave. There was at that time a regular gradatory line, or so to speak, a ladder of attainment, a chain of connected links from the neophytes that were under the instruction of the masters in the body, to the masters that had passed beyond the confines of an earthly existence, on up to the Elohim; and, reasoning from analogy, this chain does not end here, but there are members – men who have lived in the body in other worlds, from the beginning of time to the present – who have reached heights of attainment transcending the possibility of our finite conception.
In order to know something of that Eternal Brotherhood, we must follow the injunction of the writer of the letter to the Hebrews: “Therefore, leaving the first principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. And this we will do, if God permit.” (Hebrews 6:1-3).
If the Christian church had faithfully followed the leading of the Spirit of God, or would follow it now, it would leave these first principles of the doctrine of Christ and go on unto perfection, where its members would know God and these things whereof we write. And they would know these things, not from theory, but from an experience more perfect, more vivid, more realistic than the experiences of everyday life in this material world; for the doctrines of Christ are but the types and shadows of the glorious things that God has in store for those that fear to do evil, and love God and have perfect confidence in his guiding intelligence.
If you carefully read the sixth chapter of Hebrews, not fearing to accept the truth, you will see wonderful things in Paul’s argument. After an earnest appeal to all to believe God and to follow him fearlessly, he closes the chapter with the following words: “That by two immutable things in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made a high priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.”
This allusion to our being permitted through obedience to the leadings of the Spirit, to enter “that within the veil”, and become one with Jesus and that eternal order of Melchizedek, or Yahveh Elohim, is a direct reference to what has always existed in the initiations of the faithful neophyte, who, when he had attained worthiness, was permitted to enter the secret place of the Most High, into the knowledge of that Eternal Brotherhood.
Frequent references are made throughout the Bible to “that within the veil”, a veil symbolized by the veil of the temple, dividing the holy place from the Holiest of all. Jesus referred to it frequently and proclaimed himself to be the door, the means by which one may enter in through that veil, “whither”, as Paul said, “the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek”, implying that that order is within the veil.”
Hiram Butler
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 